The article is devoted to the study of the internet-discourse from the point of view of a hypertext. The author analyses a sufficient number of sources devoted to the problem of hypertext, and of creolized text. Distinctive features of the phenomena “discourse” and “hypertext” are described. The author concludes that the internet-discourse can rightfully be considered a hypertext. Besides, the methods of the analyzing and synthesizing a hypertext can be applied to the analysis and synthesis of the internet-discourse. Hypertext discourses exist in parallel with text discourses. The following principles enable us to consider the internet-discourse to be a hypertext, among them: 1) globality, 2) accessibility (both for scanning and for participating in creating a hypertext and discourse); 3) automatism of initiating global hypertext ties between the elements of the information contents.

internet-discourse, text, hypertext, internet-linguistics, internet communication

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